Sound stuttering and laginess

[batazer]

I am getting constant sound stuttering and laginess on HL2 & Mods. Anyway to prevent this?

I have P4, 3.2 ghz, 1.0GB of ram, Radeon 9700 pro, Soundblaster live 24bit

I run everything on the 'High' setting, I have 2X Anti-Aliasing and the rest on default.

Please help!

 

[ríomhaire]

"I run everything on the 'High' setting, I have 2X Anti-Aliasing and the rest on default."
How many setting do you have above the recomended?

 

[Przemek]

The game runs fine on my PC (see signature), except for HDR maps in CS:S and DoD:S where it gets a bit stuttery, but one of the previous Steam updates supposedly fixed it (haven't checked yet).

Anyway, try the following:
* reduce hardware acceleration of your soundcard (type dxdiag in Start->Run, go to Sound tab and move the slider one notch to the left).
* does the same thing occur with no anti-aliasing?
* try disabling CTHELPER.EXE if you see it running in the background. You can't just shut it down from Task Manager, so you have to go to msconfig (Start -> Run) and disable it on the Startup tab, then restart your PC. This process sometimes (rarely, but it does) eats CPU
* which drivers version?
* try removing the soundcache folder in SteamApps\[your_steam_name]\half-life 2\hl2\maps -- maybe, for some odd reason, they got corrupted? But this would only explain HL2 stuttering, not mods. Anyway, it's worth a try (these files will be automaticaly recreated the next time you run HL2).

That's all I can think of at the moment. Hope something helps!